1000 Years of World Architecture: An Illustrated GuideThis volume is a guide to the main characteristics, movements and regional variants of a millennium of Western architecture, from the early Romanesque to the most recent contemporary trends. |
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Page 66
... ribs clearly derived from Islamic prototypes ; it is illuminated by light that enters the narrow slits located at the base of the ribs . Torres del Rio makes clear the syncretic and international character of much 12th - century Spanish ...
... ribs clearly derived from Islamic prototypes ; it is illuminated by light that enters the narrow slits located at the base of the ribs . Torres del Rio makes clear the syncretic and international character of much 12th - century Spanish ...
Page 88
... ribs or ribs along the top of the vault . But this was not all . The concept of space characterized by the perspective marking off of volumes , which reached its most convincing expression at Bourges , did not take hold on English soil ...
... ribs or ribs along the top of the vault . But this was not all . The concept of space characterized by the perspective marking off of volumes , which reached its most convincing expression at Bourges , did not take hold on English soil ...
Page 130
... ribs . The dome Brunelleschi invented not only brought to a conclusion a building conceived in another epoch but profoundly altered its spatial values , with pale marble ribs that converge at the top to enclose red - brick sections that ...
... ribs . The dome Brunelleschi invented not only brought to a conclusion a building conceived in another epoch but profoundly altered its spatial values , with pale marble ribs that converge at the top to enclose red - brick sections that ...
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